Ken Lay Dead
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006Accountancy Age reports that Ken Lay, former CEO of Enron has died. Well, no one takes pleasure in such news, and I offer normal condolences
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Make tax returns public
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006Alex Hawkes, who is Accountancy Age’s tax hack, talks on his blog about making tax returns public as a way of shaming people into tax
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Essex University Tax Workshop
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006I’ll be at Essex University for the next couple of days at the joint Tax Justice Network / Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs 2006
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Special thanks are due to....
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006Dennis Howlett of Accmanpro needs a special note of thanks. Simple blogging is simple. Setting up something like this is not quite so simple. Dennis
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Time for beneficial ownership to be declared
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006I was pleased to present evidence to the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group earlier this year. Their findings can be found on the Royal African
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Guernsey's "strange ecnomic policy"
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006I was interviewed by BBC Radio Guernsey yesterday and they then put up a feature on our discussion. It does seem that several people have
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Managing without ethics
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006Why do we have a crisis in tax? Simon Caulkin gives some guidance in his article for the Observer. His explanation: In effect, all professions
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Tax incentives produce perverse effects - another nail in the Celtic Tiger's coffin
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006The Irish Sunday Times ran an interesting article today. Anyone should read it for the mixed package of messages it offers. First of all ordinary
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The WSJ – on Barclays and its tax trick
Friday, June 30th, 2006The WSJ — on Barclays and its tax tricks The Wall Street Journal has published an article on the tricks that a team at Barclays
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